[plug] Which wiki is the wiki for me

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:27 +0800, Russell wrote:
> On 10/31/06, Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to put together a Wiki for Linux autofs documentation.
> >
> > But I don't know much about Wikis so I was hoping that people on the
> > list have had some experience with the different packages available.
> >
> > So what is the best Wiki to use?
> 
> For me, Moinmoin.  I looked around at the differences in markup while
> searching for an internal wiki at work, and found moin to be the best
> from that point of view, in that almost none of its markup is
> something you would want to type in normal text.  Mediawiki is also
> very good in that way, but I find it disconcerting to have every line
> of text (including nested lists) jammed up against the left margin,
> which is what mediawiki markup seems to require.  Twiki is
> particularly bad in my opinion.  For example twiki separates cells in
> table markup by single '|' characters, whereas sane wiki markup uses
> '||'.

We are testing out MoinMoin now.
It seems simple enough for the single task we need it for.

I can't seem to get the spell check to work no matter what I do.
Version is 1.3.4-3 deb with Python 2.3.5-2 deb.

Ian